Genre
Realistic Fiction
Setting and Context
School, home
Narrator and Point of View
Crash Coogan
1st person view
Tone and Mood
Aggressive, Competitive
Protagonist and Antagonist
Protagonist: Crash Coogan Antagonist: Abby Coogan
Major Conflict
Scooter dying changes Crash's attitude the most.
Climax
When Crash lets Penn Webb win the race.
Foreshadowing
Crash will stop hanging out with Mike Deluca and start to stop people from bullying Penn and become his best friend.
Understatement
Dad looks like one of the important characters in the story, but he barely even exists in the story. He makes his only appearance at the beginning of the book.
Allusions
A basic allusion in the story is by describing that Mike is not such a heartful friend leads to the evil effect it has on Crash.
Imagery
If you think of Crash you can have it lead to an image of an bullet on the field or some kind of rocket.
Paradox
It seems like Crash is a villain in some points of the book but actually he is just a good person that does bad things. He proves that he had a kind mentality when he changes he attitude after Scooter's death.
Parallelism
A parallelism in the story is that Crash judges people by not their personality but what they believe in. This changes later in the story.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
A Synecdoche in the story is Mike Deluca and Crash Coogan. They are extremely similar to each other. Their aggressiveness and their natural instinct to compete and win. A metonymy in the story is the passion of Penn Webb's peace is represented when he protests peacefully to stop making mall in the town.
Personification
Crash's natural extinct is to be violent and competitive. Penn Webb's personification is how he is peaceful and has more of a mature/womanlike mind compared to the other boys in his grade.
